Re: A better way? Extracting filename from url

i use these with local harddrive filenames, but they should work pretty much the same for url's

method 1:
$file = substr $url, rindex($url, '/') + 1; #path contains full url

method 2:
$url =~ s/^.*\///; #just use the url to get the filename with a regex

method 3:
($file) = $url =~ m!([^/]+)$!; #another regex way

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Re: Re: A better way? Extracting filename from url by moodster (Hermit) on Jan 14, 2002 at 17:01 UTC
It works, but I guess you've also got to consider the possibility that the URL will contain query parameters, like this: `http://www.site.com/dir/file.html?param1=val1&param2=val2` So a second substitution (I'm sure you can do it with a lookahead assertion or similar, but that seems a bit overkill) is probably in order: `$file =~ s/\?.*//;` Cheers, -- moodster	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: A better way? Extracting filename from url by Gerard (Pilgrim) on Jan 15, 2002 at 02:23 UTC
Moodster has a good point. Thanks all for your comments. To be honest I had not even considered the possiblity of query paramters, which is very silly of me. But hey, it was late. Anway, I can now look at this again a bit later on. I am constantly amazed and impressed with the good nature and high value of comments that come out of this site. Regards, Gerard The caffeine addict (now sufficiently supplied).	[reply]